> My G3 iBook has died a premature death due to video card failure > and I am seeking to replace it with a Powerbook. I have read that Airport > Extreme is not supported due to driver license issues, is that correct ?
Broadcom makes the chip in the Airport Extreme cards, and they are bastards who don't release specs. > Also, is the ATI Radeon 9600 found in the 15" and 17" AlBooks any > better supported than the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go 5200 as installed in the > 12" PB ? I sold my G3 iBook and bought a 12" PB when they first came out and I regret it. The G3 iBook remains a wonderful machine with everything supported; the 12" PB G4 is not yet supported for sleep or Airport Extreme, which is a huge problem for me since I'd completely built my (computing) life around 802.11b and portability. I long for a system that supports these things again. If I could have one feature and not the other, I might be able to use it, but for now (10 months?) I've been booting OS X 95% of the time and taking refuge in my x86 Sid box at work. I trust that in time all the hard coding work necessary to support these chips will be done (and I wish I could do it myself), but it remains in the distant, hardly-foreseeable future. If you want to run GNU/Linux right now, don't get the 12". If anyone wants to trade me a decent, recent iBook for my 12", I will seriously consider it. O.
